We, America and Washington have a long history of by catch. In 1983 on the O.P. a big return of coho to the Dungeness hatchery was predicted, so a gillnet season was promulgated, but only in Dungeness Bay to reduce interception of other salmon runs. We fishcops patrolled the gillnet debacle and witnessed as thousands of crab were netted, destroyed and dumped back into the bay. "We're salmon managers" was the reply and we were told not to enforce the wastage statutes. Pacific cod populations near Port Angeles were wiped out by draggers along with local halibut. What happened to the tom cod and pollock in central and south Puget Sound? Why is it that Seattle based commercial salmon fishers can intercept our endangered salmon runs in another state (Alaska) and sell these endangered fish in Seattle? Why do we have a Columbia River gillnet fishery that has more by catch than targeted species? Why do anglers on the upper Methow have to use barbless flies, when downstream gillnets are okay? All this stuff and a lot more has driven me to high blood pressure for years. Is anyone going to read the Ruckleshouse report that will do anything? Of course not.